why salt?

Food without flavour is bland, boring and tasteless.

The same goes with life.

It's been a probing thought over the years that life without zest, reality & truth is a parallel to chicken chop suey without the soy or a hot dog without the sauce. It just goes with the main thing. Our main thing is life, and salt is the essence of it. It is the meaning of things. It is why we are here.

These are thoughts I would think as I lay awake for hours upon hours when I was in the prime of my youth & had hours to spare. I would think about life & its meanings. I would question the heavens for a glimpse of eternity and the origins of who I am.

Years upon years soon chip away at the meaningful questions about life & its seasons. Too soon the responsibilities of becoming an adult and being mature create a fast paced illusion, and hours of thoughts and questions are too soon shoved aside for a banquet of commodities and material dreams.

The spice of life becomes bland, yet we feast on the day with hunger that is never satisfied.

What we need is salt in its truest form. We need truth, like pure water and air.

So salt is my theme. It is raw, pure and adds true flavour. Once it is added it can't be taken out. It makes a difference. It lasts. It is real.

I hope that what I write has a similar effect. I hope that the questions of my youth return as I search my soul for reality and those things that really mean something.

I hope it is an experience. Like eating buttered, salty popcorn...

"Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor. "
~It's A Wonderful Life,(movie)1946